The Pale Exile
The clock in the antechamber did not tick; it breathed. Silas Vane sat in a chair of carved oak, his hands resting on his knees, pale and still as lily petals. He was a clerk of the lowest rank, a man whose life was measured in the filling of inkwells and the folding of parchment. Yet, for three days, he had not left the throne room of Lord Blackwood. The air in the hall was thick with the...
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